Technology and Enterprise

Food & Nutrition

  • Introduction to Food Safety and Hygiene & Nutrition
    • Knife skills, Pasta Salad, Bread Making
  • Writing recipes, and Food Science
    • Pizza, Muffins
  • Wider Food issues: Packaging, Seasonality, Food Choices
    • Goujons
  • Meal Planning Project
    • Scones
  • Hygiene and Nutrition
    • Crudites and Dips
  • Food High in Fats and Sugars
    • Shortbread, Carrot Cake, Cheesecake, Oat Cookies
  • Food Production and Food Science
    • Mini Quiches
  • Nutrition, Hygiene and Functional Properties
    • Irish Soda Bread, Decorative Focaccia
  • NEA 1 Practice
    • Gluten Investigation
  • Wider Food Issues (Religious Diets and Food Provenance)
    • Curry and Flatbread, Fajitas, Pasta Bake, Toad in the Hole
  • Special Dietary Requirements
    • Scones Investigation

KS3 Design & Technology

Rotations (6 week blocks):

  • CAD
  • Drawing / Designing
  • Practical

Rotations (6 week blocks)

  • CAD
  • Drawing/Designing
  • Practical

Rotations (6 week blocks)

  • CAD
  • Drawing/Designing
  • Practical

KS3 Computing

  • E-Safety, ICT Skills and School Systems
  • Spreadsheet Modelling
  • Computational Thinking and Flowol
  • Programming Essentials in Scratch
  • HTML
  • E-Safety and Interactive Multimedia Product
  • Scratch to Python
  • Mobile App Development
  • Data Representation
  • Introduction to Python Programming
  • E-Safety and Python Programming
  • Networks
  • Image Representation and Digital Graphics
  • Animation
  • Cyber Security

GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition

  • Practical skills: intermediate to higher cookery skills with little reliance on standard components.
  • Students will cover a range of meals and desserts with a focus on presentation including doughs, sponges, pastries, sauces, cook chill meals
  • Understanding food science and nutrients in depth
  • Investigation into a food science task. This focuses on report writing and conducting an investigation
  • A wide range of social, moral, cultural and environmental issues
  • NEA 1 – Investigative Report (15%)
  • NEA 2 – A portfolio of work including a final 3 course meal (35%)
  • Final Exam (50%)

Cambridge Nationals Creative iMedia

Pre-Production Skills

  • Purpose and Content
  • Planning
  • Production
  • Review

Digital Graphics

  • Purpose and Properties
  • Planning
  • Create
  • Review

Pre-Production Skills

  • Purpose and Content
  • Planning
  • Production
  • Review

Digital Interactive Products

  • Purpose and Properties
  • Planning
  • Create
  • Review

BTEC Construction and The Built Environment

Unit 3: Construction & Design. Learning Aims:

  • A understand the work of the construction industry
  • B understand a client’s needs to develop a design brief for a low-rise building
  • C produce a range of initial sketch ideas to meet the requirements of a client brief for a low-rise building

Unit 9: Exploring Electrical Principles and Techniques: Learning Aims:

  • A understand tools, materials and equipment used for electrical engineering operations
  • B develop practical skills using safe techniques to undertake electrical operations
  • Unit 1: Construction Technology. Learning Aims:
    • A understand the structural performance required for low-rise construction
    • B explore how sub-structures are constructed
    • C explore how superstructures are constructed.

    Unit 2: Scientific and Mathematical Applications for Construction. Learning Aims:

    • A understand the effects of forces and temperature changes on materials used in construction
    • B use mathematical techniques to solve construction problems.

GCSE Computer Science

  1. Problem Solving
  2. Data
  3. Computers
  4. Networks
  5. Issues and Impact
  6. Programming
  1. Problem Solving
  2. Data
  3. Computers
  4. Networks
  5. Issues and Impact
  6. Programming

Cambridge Nationals Engineering Design

R040 – Evaluating Designs and Modelling Coursework.

  • Analysis of a product
  • CAD
  • Modelling

R038 – Principles of Engineering Design

  • Designing processes
  •  Designing requirements
  •  Communicating design outcomes
  •  Evaluating design ideas

R039 – Communicating Designs

  • Freehand sketching
  • Engineering Drawing
  • CAD (Computer Aided Design)

R038 – Principles of Engineering Design

  • Designing Processes
  •  Designing Requirements
  •  Communicating Design Outcomes
  •  Evaluating Design Idea

GCSE Business Studies

The course is a 2 year course with 2 exams to sit. Both exams are sat at the end of Year 11 and are worth 50% each. The exam is sat with the OCR exam board.  In Year 10 students cover:

Business Activity:

  • Enterprise
  • Ownership
  • Business Plans
  • Objectives
  • Stakeholders
  • Business Growth

Marketing:

  • Role of Marketing
  • Product
  • Place
  • Price
  • Promotion
  • Market Research
  • Segmentation

People

  • Role of Human Resources
  • Organisational Structures
  • Communication
  • Recruitment
  • Selection
  • Monetary Motivation
  • Non-monetary Motivation
  • Training
  • Employment Law

The course is a 2 year course with 2 exams to sit. Both exams are sat at the end of Year 11 and are worth 50% each. The exam is sat with the OCR exam board.  In Year 11 the following content is taught:

Operations:

  • Production Processes
  • Quality
  • Sales Process and Customer Service
  • Consumer Law
  • Business Location
  • Working With Suppliers

Finance:

  • Role of Finance
  • Sources of Finance
  • Revenues, Costs, Profits and Loss
  • Break Even
  • Cash and Cash Flow

Influences on a Business:

  • Ethical Considerations
  • Environmental Considerations
  • Globalisation
  • The Independent Nature of Business

Please contact Mrs Lindsay Carling for more information on the Technology and Enterprise curriculum: lcarling@hightunstall.hartlepool.sch.uk.